Improvement in nozzles for cans and casks



A. L. WEBSTER. NozzLE PoR (JANS AND GASKS.

No. 105,151 atentedAJuly 5, 1870.

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'part ot this specification, and in which- .portable character, but also to stationary ves- .conncct the vent-chamber with the upper por- .tion of the vessel.

PATENT OEEIGE,

ABEL L. WEBSTER, O

IMPROVEMENT IN NOZZL F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

ES FOR CANS AND CASKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 105,151',l dated July 5, 1870.

To all 'w 4.fm it may concern Be it known that I, ABEL L. WEBSTER, of Cleveland, in the county of 'Cuyahoga vand State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Ventilating-Nozzle for Cans, Barrels, and other Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming Figure l representsa sectional view of a can with my invention applied thereto, said can' being represented as in the act of being tilted; Figs. 2 and 3, a longitudinal sect-ion and interior face View oi' the nozzle under a modified construction of its parts; and Figs. 4 and 5, sectional views of the invention under different modifications or arrangements of the same as applied to a cask or barrel.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Thisinvention is applicable not only to cans and barrels, but to otherfclose vessels for coutaining and pouring off liquids of various kinds, in which a nozzle is or may be used, and in which a vent is necessary to facilitate the running or drawing off ofthe contents of the vessel. It also is applicable not only to vessels oi' a sels or chambers in which the contents are re-u quired to be drawn oitby means of a pump or otherwise-as, for instance, to water-tight com partments of ships.

The nozzle may be variously constructed to adapt it to diiierent .kinds of vessels, and the air-passage, with which it is provided or made to communicate for establishment of the vent,

be arranged eitherinsideor outside of thevessel, or within the wall or shell of it.

Said invention consists in a Ventilating-nozzlewhich embraces as its component parts or appendages a bib or spout, an outside ventehainbcr, which is covered by a screw-capot* vent, that may also be made to close the bib and au air or Ventilating duct, arranged to The invention, in its application to a barrel vor other vessel liable to beinverted n handling or moving it about, likewise includes an automatic valve for closing' the air duct, to

for the admissionof air to 'secure vent.V

Referring, in the first instance, to Fig. 1 of the drawing, A represents a can having the improved nozzle under one of its forms or modiications applied to it, b representing the top ofthe can. This nozzle embraces a spout, 13,. surrounded, at its junction with the can on the outside of the latter, by an annular air or vent chamber, C, which is provided with ventlioles c, and is in communication, by an orifice, d, with an air or ventilatin g ducal), that connects with the upper portion of the interior of' the can, so that on taking oft' a screw-cap, E, which is made to close both the spout B and vent-holes c of theehamber C, air is readily admitted through the vent-holes c, chamber C, orifice d, and lair-duct D to the upper portion of the can, which facilitates running oli' the contents of the latter by its spout B without bubbling or hinderanee of any kind4 In Fig 1 the screw-cap E is represented as made out of sheet metal, with its screw-thread formed by pressure on or around the outer end of the chamber C, which has the spout B soldered to or Iliade to lit closely within it. y

In Figs. 2 and 3 'substantially the samede vices are shown, but of amore solid and somewhat diii'erent construction, the perforated' annular chamber C being cast on the spout and while the spout -B has a screw thread on which a female screw in the iit. Y

When the nozzle is required to be connected with the vessel otherwise than by soldering, as in fitting it to a eask or barrel, then the inner end of the spout B should bemade to project beyond the Vinner face of the annular an'- chamber, so that` said spout is caused tochter y the vessel.

` Figs. et and 5 represent lthe invention as applied' 'to a barrelunder different arrangements of the nozzle and its air-duct, to adapt itin the one case to a standing position of the barrelY on its end and inthe other case' to a lying position of the barrel oir' its bil'ge.

Substantially thesame combinationoi parts,

however, isusedy as in the can hereinbefore prevent the contents of the vessel from run,-

described, and the action is the same, A being ning down or into said duct, but which opens v pressed in it, and made to fit a screw-threadcontned to the inner or rear portion thereof, y

cap E is made 1 the' vessel or barrel; B, the spout; C, the perforated ventchamber;y D, the air-duct, and E the screw-cap; but the end portion of the in` ner duct, which opens into the barrel, .is provided With a ball or other valve, s, which may be contained in a. cage, m, and which is arramgedso that, when the barrel is at rest iu the position it is required to stand or lie for drawing 01T its contents, said valve drops or automatically opens the orice in the-upper end of the duct to secure to the nozzle its hereinbeforespecied Ventilating action; but when the barrel is inverted, as in handling or moving it about, the valve s becomes self-closing, and prevents the liquid in the barrel from passing into or filling the air-duct D.

By the application of the invention to a Cask `or barrel it bung -hole in the latter, to effect vent, may be dispensed with, and the filling of the barrel be effected through the spout of the nozzle.

What is here claimed, and desired to be sel.

cured by LetterspPatent, is l. A Ventilating-nozzle for cans or casks 1n which the cap, screwing down from above, 1s

made to cover not only the spout, but the airu 

